This is your dear old mother writing to you. There is a lot of interesting news since you left. It's wet but not as wet as when it was really wet. I'm writing this slow because I know you can't read fast. Excuse the writing I had an accident, burnt my fingers in boiling water. I should have felt the water before I put my fingers in it. I'm feeling better since you went away. Went to the doctor and got a wonderful medicine for my deafness. I took a dose on Friday night and it was so good I heard from Uncle Hughie in Australia on the Saturday morning. I feel 25 years younger and your father is delighted. Your brother Ernie came in crying from school this evening because all his pals have new clothes. We can't afford to buy him a new outfit so we are going to buy him a new hat and let him look out the window.

We had a row with the electric light company; it ended in a draw we got not light and they got no money. It is very dark but not as dark as when it was really dark. We are hard up son, send us a few quid - it will only cost you five pence. Our neighbours the Browns started to keep pigs and we only got the wind of the this morning. Friday night was wet, we went to bed early. Mr. Higgins got his appendix out and a new kitchen sink in. The cat had four kittens in your father's hat. I put them in a box in case they grew up round shouldered. The undertaker called and said that if the last installment isn't paid on your mother-in-law, up she'd come. Your father has worms and has gone fishing.

Your father has a good job now, first in 10 years. We are a great deal better off then we were. Your father gets £10 every Thursday as we do a bit of fixing up. We bought one of the new fangles things they call bathrooms. You hear tell of them in some houses. It is put in by a man called a plumber. On one side of the room is a bog long thing, what you used to feed the pigs in before you went away. We jump into that and wash all over. But near that is a small one they call a sink. That is for light washing such as hands and face. Ah! but over in the corner is the nicest contraption of all. You put one foot in and wash it clean, then pull a little chain and you get fresh water for the other foot. Two covers came with it and we hadn't any use for them in the bathroom, so I'm using one as a bread board and the other has a hole in so we framed your granddad’s picture. They sent us a big roll of writing paper with it, this is what I'm using now Son to write to you. Take care of yourself.

Mum